Obama Budget: $500 Billion to Big Banks for Interest on National Debt

by Scott Creighton

In Obama’s new budget, very few have noted thus far that $500 billion of his $3.8 trillion dollar budget is going to pay the big banks which make up the “Federal” Reserve system for nothing more than interest on the debt that they created and then got bailed out for. What is that? Somewhere around 16.6% of the total budget for 2013?

Meanwhile, in order to fend off the dreaded “deficit monster” (created by the fraud and conspiracy conducted by these very same banks) Obama’s new budget outlines $40 billion dollars in domestic discretionary spending cuts compared to fiscal year 2012 (which had already suffered cuts at the Obama hands last year)

500 billion more for the criminals who created this disaster and 40 billion less for you, you kids, and your friends and  neighbors in desperate need.

There’s your CHANGE suckers.  Spend it well. But for God’s sake, get out there and campaign for Obama because if Santorum gets into office, you might have to get up off your asses and go protest like they did that republican governor in Wisconsin.

End of game in the Middle East

by Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire Net

For eleven months, the Western powers and the Gulf States have lead a campaign to destabilize Syria. Several thousand mercenaries infiltrated the country. Recruited by agencies in Saudi Arabia and Qatar within the Sunni extremist community, they came to overthrow the “usurper Alawite” Bashar al-Assad and impose a Wahhabi-inspired dictatorship. They have at their disposal the most sophisticated military equipment, including night vision systems, communication centers, and robots for urban warfare. Supported secretly by the NATO powers, they also have access to vital military information, including satellite images of Syrian troop movements, and telephone interceptions.

Neoliberal News of the Day: Feb 15th 2012

by Scott Creighton

Israel Sets off More Bombs: Claims Iran is “Destabilizing” the World – The story out of Thailand is another bomb went off wounding some Iranian and therefore Israel is out, front and center trying to manage the story claiming it “proves” that Iran is conducting terror operations across the globe. The claim is that in three separate bombings, there were Iranians involved and the bombs all matched in design and composition, therefore, the Iranians are trying to destabilize the world. Of course, that could mean that ONE ENTITY (say… I don’t know… the MOSSAD perhaps?) has targeted three different sets of Iranians in order to frame them for these acts and try to present the world with a narrative that will help build a pretext to attack Iran while making people forget that Iran has no undeclared nuclear weapons like Israel does and Iran is not currently bombing innocent civilians like Israel is… and hopefully (for Israel) people across the world will forget that Israel just recently bombed and Iranian teacher and a storage facility in Iran. Talk about destabilizing the world….

And speaking of building a pretext…

NBC was on hand when a USN carrier drifted through the Strait of Hormuz UNIMPEDED by the Iranian navy… of course, the dishonest headlines would be all about “A FACE OFF in the Strait!!!“… like the Gulf of Tonkin incident, that never happened. Someone contacted me last night about the “face off” MSNBC was selling. It never happened. They claim that an Iranian boat was 2 miles from a US carrier while they ran stock footage of an Iranian boat. It never got close enough for the camera crew to even film it. Why do they put GE’s mouthpiece “news” agent on board a US vessel steaming through the strait? Because they wanted to create some anti-Iranian propaganda to go with the Israeli anti-Iranian propaganda… that’s why.

The European Union is not satisfied with Greece’s savage austerity measures (and when I say the “European Union” what I mean are the banks like JP Morgan Chase of London, because God knows, the only people that matte in Europe as well as everywhere else, are the slimy money-changers) designed by the unelected trifecta of globalist economists who own Greece these days so they are refusing to hand over the billions of dollars which the Greek people will be on the hook for over the next few generations while subsequently also giving globalist bankers all their nations national treasures and destroying the social safety net. That apparently isn’t good enough for the people like MF Global owners who caused the Greek crisis in the first place. These economic terrorists want the leaders of the two leading parties in Greece to sign agreements stating they will continue with the crippling austerity package and privatizations no matter what happens in the next election coming this April. That’s what the globalists call “stability”. They get theirs no matter what democracy (the will of the people) demands.

President Obama met with the Chinese Vice President yesterday and scolded him about not supporting the neoliberal plan for Syria and China’s reluctance to get on board the gravy train of neoliberal free-market globalization. In a remarkably disingenuous statement, Joe Biden claimed that China needed to practice a “fairer” kind of trade policies. Really? China is being demonized by the US and Britain because the countries that they deal with do consider them more fair than the US and Britain. Plus, China doesn’t force austerity measures and tell them who can run their countries.

Lyin Joe Lieberman: Praises “Brave Syrian Freedom Fighters” and Calls for a new “Coalition of the Willing”

by Scott Creighton

UPDATE: CNN promotes Lyin Joe Lieberman and a brand new “Gay Girl in Damascus” psyop!  Now they got “Syrian Danny” who is a British citizen pleading for a NATO bombing in Syria. This guy says the only thing that can save the country he does not live in is for the United States or Israel to bomb the shit out of them like we did in Libya. How brave of him sitting in London somewhere to ask NATO to blow up Syria.

“Syrian Danny” – Syria

“Gay Girl in Damascus” – Syria

“Eman al-Obeidy” – Libya

“Neda” – Iran

“Nurse Nayirah” – Iraq

Jessica Lynch story – Iraq

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The war-mongering Israel-firster and delusional liar Joe Lieberman is at it again. He’s spewing already debunked lies and even drudging up the old “freedom fighters” rhetoric from the Reagan days in support of arming the terrorists who are killing Syrian soldiers, police officers, government officials, and civilians in order to destabilize the country and hand it over to globalist technocrats so they can chop it up and hand it over to various multinational corporations. He even calls for another “coalition of the willing” to try to circumvent the Russian and “Iranian” vetoes of the UN resolution.

“don’t let the delusional liar door hit you in the delusional liar butt on the way out.”  “goodbye, Joe Lieberman, and good riddance.” Keith Olbermann

An Unfortunate Alliance: Senator Gravel Moves on to “Capitalize” on Occupy Wall Street

by Scott Creighton

What is listed below is my reply to Senator Gravel’s response to an article I wrote about the way in which he handled his departure from 911CC, an organization that he founded and campaigned for looking to get a initiative on the ballot for the formation of a  citizens commission to re-investigate the events of 9/11. I did not find his comment to be completely forthright nor do I appreciate his apparent flippancy regarding the harm he ultimately caused those who invested in his efforts. I post this reluctantly because as Gravel himself put it, he is preparing “to capitalize on the OWS spring offensive”. Given the timing and the way he handled both his departure and the funds donated by Truth advocates, I am left wondering if he wasn’t “capitalizing” on the 911CC effort from the beginning. Below my reply is Sen. Gravel’s comment.

UPDATE: Mike Gravel claims that someone else wrote the article I found that contradicts what he told the Truth movement about what he believed happened on 9/11. Unfortunately for the senator, he wrote other articles for the Huffington Post. One of which says this:

“Despite what the Bush administration claims, Iran was a great enemy of the perpetrators of 9/11 long before 2001. In the 1990s Iran waged a covert war against the Taliban and Wahabi-Sunni terrorist networks like Al-Qaeda.

… So why not let Ahmadinejad pay his respects at Ground Zero? Why not let him send a message to the Muslim world that 9/11 was an atrocity that everyone, including fundamentalist Muslims, should mourn?”  Mike Gravel

Were both of these articles written by someone else? Are we to believe that the Huffington Post is just writing these things themselves or posting articles submitted by a third party without checking with the person who’s name is attributed to the work? Or is something else happening here?

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Sen Gravel:

Let me see if I understand this:

You’re suggesting that the Huffington Post, a large website with about a million hits a day (back in  late 2007 during the election campaign) and obviously a legal team on staff or retainer, published an article under your name without checking with you or even your campaign staff about the legitimacy of said article, during your PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN?  That’s your answer?  Wouldn’t that be… illegal… for them to do that? Could they be sued for slander or libel?

Hmmm

Unnamed Sources Say: al Qaeda™ (formerly known as “Freedom Fighters”) Now in Syria

by Scott Creighton

If you read that headline and thought to yourself “wow… they’ll never stop milking that golden goose”… you’re not alone. The CIA has packed up their al Qaeda™ roadshow and jetted out of Libya, apparently setting up their bloody shop in Syria, the next target on their “7 countries in 5 years” Tour. The modern day “freedom fighters”, complete with their own congressional funding and an office right there in D.C., go from hero to villain and back again in the blink of an eye depending on whatever the spin calls for. It’s like a day labor pool for monsters: Killers Temp Services – “We’re There When You Need Us to Blow Up Some Kids”.

I guess giving them an office in D.C. is cost effective… saves all that travel and per diem expense. Hillary can just walk out her back door and chat with those old friends of hers who helped them destabilize Bosnia and Kosovo and so many others in the past. After all these decades of dedicated service to the globalists, it’s about time al Qaeda™ got a corner office with a view, don’t ya think? I mean, right is right. How many people do you have to kill to get some respect in D.C.? Just ask Barack Obama. He kills kids by the day and he still can’t get no respect except from anti-war “liberals”  like Amy Goodman who seem to love it when “The Greatest Man of Our Generation” blows the shit out of children.

What Have We Become: Scout Snipers Adopted Nazi Symbol

by Scott Creighton

Suicide rates of returning vets are at an all time high.

Sexual assaults in the military are reaching epidemic proportions.

News anchors remark on air that they would gladly urinate of the bodies of dead Afghanis.

No punishment for anyone involved in the murder of 24 innocent unarmed civilians in Haditha in 2005

The First Lady wants our kids to lose weight because the poor ones are too fat to be cannon fodder

Obama tried to cut benefits to retired military personnel.

Billions of dollars have just been allocated for 30,000 surveillance drones to fill our skies in the next 10 years

And then there’s this.

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The Obama Justice Department vs Big Five Banks Settlement is Actually a Payoff for Services Rendered

by Scott Creighton

Keep this information in mind as you read the following article: The largest banks made a combined 13 billion dollars in profits from 7.77 trillion dollars of undisclosed emergency loans from the Federal Reserve bank over and above the 780 billion dollar banker bailouts. The loans and the bailouts were a direct reaction to the crisis caused by the criminal and fraudulent behavior of these same banks which the Obama administration now says will cost them roughly 1 billion a piece. 13 billion in profits for criminal activities (that we know of) and 5 billion in penalties (spread out over the course of a few years) while it is left to investors to foot the bill for the rest of the 26 billion dollar “settlement” deal. No further criminal prosecution, no further investigation required.

From Bloomberg News Nov. 2011 -

• The six biggest U.S. banks, which received $160 billion of TARP funds, borrowed as much as $460 billion from the Fed… JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citigroup Inc. (C), Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) and Morgan Stanley
• Bank of America and New York-based Citigroup each received $45 billion from TARP.
• Total assets held by the six biggest U.S. banks increased 39 percent to $9.5 trillion on Sept. 30, 2011, from $6.8 trillion on the same day in 2006, according to Fed data.
• Employees at the six biggest banks made twice the average for all U.S. workers in 2010, based on Bureau of Labor Statistics hourly compensation cost data.
• Bank of America took over Merrill Lynch & Co. at the urging of then-Treasury Secretary Paulson after buying the biggest U.S. home lender, Countrywide Financial Corp.
• Wells Fargo bought Wachovia Corp., the fourth-largest U.S. bank by deposits before the 2008 acquisition.
• JPMorgan absorbed the country’s largest savings and loan, Seattle-based Washington Mutual Inc., and investment bank Bear Stearns Cos. The New York Fed, then headed by Timothy F. Geithner, who’s now Treasury secretary, helped JPMorgan complete the Bear Stearns deal by providing $29 billion of financing, which was disclosed at the time.

original article below

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The Obama administration finalized their latest and most heinous betrayals of their 3 year history yesterday when they announced their settlement between the big five banks and state and federal governments on their “investigation” into the massive systemic mortgage fraud conspiracy. There will be no investigation. We will never know the full extent of the criminal conspiracy to decimate the economy of the United States of America because Barack Obama’s “Justice” Department has struck a deal. The economic hit-men who are running this country won out as Left Cover Obama sold us out. Again.

NSAnonymous “Hacks” Syrian Government Emails: Assad Prepares for Interviews so We Should Kill Him and Privatize Everything the People of Syria Own

by Scott Creighton

The fake hacker group known as “Anonymous” (the group that always turns up just in time to hack into an agency or a bank or something just in time to help create the justification to cripple the internet) has “hacked” Syrian government email accounts and of course they handed over all their info to an Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

“Hundreds of emails from Syrian President Bashar Assad’s office were leaked on Monday after an attack by the hacker group Anonymous. One of the email files, which Haaretz has obtained, was a document preparing Assad for his December 2011 interview with ABC’s Barbara Walters. ” Haaretz

Anonymous is a fraud. They’re either NSA, State Department, or a Defense Department contractor like L3.

MSNBC Headlines Story Given to them by A Phony and a Liar:”Rami Abdelrahman” Does Not Exist According to the SOHR

by Scott Creighton

MSNBC is headlining a story this morning about the Syrian government “slaughtering” families in Homs (Group: Militia ‘slaughtered’ 3 families in Syria’s Homs) Their entire story is based on information given to them by a fictitious person inside the fraudulent organization the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). According to MSNBC, the person who provided the details of this Assad government slaughter is “Rami Abdelrahman” of SOHR. The only problem is that Rami doesn’t exist. He never did exist. And the person writing under his name is a liar and a fraud and is making up bullshit stories. Who says that? The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that.

Lavrov in Damascus seeking hope for Syria

from Russia Today

Syria could get another chance at a diplomatic escape route from its continuing political crisis as the Russian delegation has arrived on Tuesday to hold talks with President Assad.

A last-ditch delegation to Damascus bearing a personal message for Bashar al-Assad from President Medvedev has been welcomed by thousands of people lining the streets of the Syrian capital.

Russian FM is holding talks with Assad in what many see as the Syrian president’s last opportunity to establish an internationally recognized diplomatic mechanism for resolving the violence that is tearing the country apart.

“It is in Russia’s interest that the Arab nations live in peace and accord,” remarked Lavrov opening talks with Assad. “Every leader in every country must realize his share of responsibility. You do realize yours.”

Amid speculation that the message Lavrov carries may include a suggestion that Assad resign, FM Sergey Lavrov stressed asking a president of a sovereign country to step down is not a Russian profession.

[read the rest, here]

ALBA countries join chorus condemning “Contras” interference in Syria

from Voltaire Net

In a statement issued during the eleventh summit of the organization, the nine members of the ALBA bloc (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America) rejected on Sunday the “systematic policy of interference and destabilization” that seeks to “impose by force on the Syrian people a regime change.”

The ALBA resolution condemns the “acts of armed violence that paramilitary groups supported by foreign powers have unleashed against the Syrian people.“

The heads of States members of the organization for Latin American integration have further lent support to the “national reform process initiated by the government of President Bashar al-Assad,” who seeks a “political solution to the current crisis respectful of the Syrian people’s sovereignty and the territorial integrity of that Arab country.”

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US war provocations against Syria

by Alex Lantier, WSWS

Washington and its imperialist allies in Europe are escalating preparations for a full-scale military intervention in Syria. Coming after last year’s NATO war against Libya and threats of a sudden Israeli attack on Iran, Syria’s main regional ally, it is clear that Washington aims to reshape the Middle East by forcibly installing pro-US regimes throughout the region.

US officials have denounced Saturday’s veto by Russia and China of a UN Security Council resolution against Syria which sought to provide a pretext for military intervention. Beijing and Moscow, who did not veto a similar UN resolution against Libya last year, fear that the day when Washington tries to use these methods directly against them may not be far off.

US preparations for intervention against Syria are very far advanced, accompanied by levels of deceit and hypocrisy unseen since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq or the period of the Nazis. Trying to hide US policy under the worm-eaten label of a “humanitarian” intervention, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denounced the UN Security Council vote as a “travesty,” adding, “We will work with the friends of a democratic Syria around the world to support the opposition’s peaceful political plans for change.”

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After Russia’s UN veto, US talks of “coalition of the willing” against Syria

by Jean Shaoul and Chris Marsden, WSWS

The veto by Russia and China of a United Nations Security Council resolution will not halt ongoing preparations for Western-backed intervention against Syria. The discussion on the resolution was a political manoeuvre from the outset, designed either to force Moscow and Beijing into agreeing to a UN cover for a Libya-style operation against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, or justify a predetermined alternative route to regime-change.

This goal has nothing to do with the humanitarian posturing of the US, France, the UK and the various despots that make up the Arab League. The aim is to install a pro-Western government dominated by Sunni forces close to the Gulf States, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, thus further isolating Iran, the main ally of the current Syrian regime.

Iran is seen as the only regional obstacle to total US hegemony over the oil-rich Middle East and Caspian Basin. Eliminating the Assad regime and weakening Tehran would also serve to push Russia and China out of their remaining bases of influence.

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What Is Really Going On In Syria: Insider Update

by Boris Dolgov, Voltaire

The current situation in Syria remains one of the most important components of the Middle Eastern and international policies. Using Syria’s domestic crisis and pursuing their own goals NATO, Israel, Turkey and the monarchies of the Persian Gulf are trying to undermine the Syrian regime.

Since the beginning of the crisis in Syria I have made two trips to that country as a member of international delegations in August 2011 and in January 2012. If we watch the dynamics of situation’s development over that period on the one hand we can state intensification of terrorist groups in Syria and on the other hand we see a broader people’s support of President Bashar Assad and a clear demarcation of political forces’ positions.

In the last two months Syria has seen a number of terrorist attacks. The terrorist attacked Syrian servicemen and military facilities, law enforcement agencies institutions, blasts on oil pipelines, railroads, murders and taking of hostage among peaceful citizens (In the city of Homs insurgents killed five well known scientists), arson of schools and killing of teachers (since March 2011, 900 schools have been set on fire and 30 teachers have been killed).

Terrorist attacks in Damascus became one of the bloodiest. Two of them were carried out on December 23, 2011 when cars loaded with explosives went off in front of the buildings of state security service killing 44 and injured about 150 people. On January 6, 2012 on a busy street a suicide bomber attack killed 26 and wounded 60. There were officers of the law enforcement agencies among the victims but most of the victims were occasional by-passers.

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